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Comms cable...gees...couldn't he find a decent size bit of copper cable anywhere........ Try stripping comms for "clean copper" ...????

They would do well to be concerned as it will force the price of land etc. way beyond the reach of the average Thai.

Ok...thanks. Seems the tourist visa will be the way for me to go. No problems with return flight dates etc. as I've done it before many times. As for the wife's passport, might be just as well to get her a tourist visa also and let her enter and depart Thailand on an Australian passport. Then she could get a new 10 year Thai passport when we get there. Much less hastle than having to travel to Sydney or even Canberra.

I imagine she will need to get a replacement for her current "expired" Thai passport to enter Thailand....???? It is a real PIA in Australia to get a new passport currently, well at any time, as one is required to travel either to Sydney or Canberra. Note we live 4 hour drive North of Brisbane in Qld. There was something in place last year where we could travel to Brisbane and Consulate officials would take orders for and issue new Thai Passports. Don't know if this still goes on but even back then, only info we could find was on B** facebook.

Thanks...but it seems for me , the tourist visa would be a much better option, and half the cost as well.

Ok...Wife's entry and exit understood. For my part, I went to the Thai Consulate web site in Canberra Australia and only listing I could find for OA Visa was under O-X which is a 5 year based visa. Seems most of the older type visas are not around anymore. I was in Thailand back in 2013 for 6 months on an OA visa with 2 entries but doesn't seem to exist now. I'll check the Sydney web site as it might be different. With what I could find on the Canberra Consulate web site, I was thinking of foregoing the visa exempt entry and just go straight to a 60 day (TR) tourist visa. As a side note, wife needs to renew or rather get a new Thai passport as her old one has expired. Brisbane Consulate is now closed for good and travelling to either Sydney or Canberra is rather extreme, especially with Covid around. Even with Brisbane it is a 4 hour train trip each way. There were, around 12 months ago, a team of Consulate personell visiting Brisbane so peolple like my wife could get a new passport but it was never published on the Consulate sites. Rather, one had to look in Facebook of all places to book any appointment etc. Does anyone know if this still applies. Facebook to me is a real PIA....just tried to sign in after a while away and it wanted photo id and who knows what else just to get in the front door of the web site.

Wife is now Aussie citizen and when borders eventually reopen we will be looking at returning to Thailand for a short stay, maybe 6 to 8 weeks. Wife's Thai passport has expired but we can get that renewed here in Australia as the time for travel comes nearer. As with the Thai passport, we have not yet bothered with an Australian Passport for her but plan to do so. She would then hold a passport for both countries. Query is, which would be the best way for her to travel to Thailand, as far as passports are concerned. I imagined it best for her to enter and leave Thailand on her Thai passport. Therefore not requiring any visa from Thai Consulate in Australia as I am required to do given the more than 30 day visa exemption. So would she leave and re-enter Australia on her new Australian Passport and similar for Thailand, ie enter and then leave Thailand on her Thai passport.

Yes, kind of problem that turned a teenager into a vegetable in Aus a couple of years back. Sadly every protection device known is not enough to detect or isolate. Aside from visual or the usual testing.

Flood through the place a few days before. No surprise the power would still be connected. Water and electricity, recipe for fire.

Sit on it you'll find out why we went with Yamaha. Honda seats hard as a rock, you'll get a sore butt the first few klms or so.

Wife's mother was supposed to get her first Pfizer jab 3 weeks ago but it seems to have evaporated as nothing yet.

Form says "less than 60" ......

So the poor critter will think that by sitting calmly at the bottom of the garden and coming to get food from you is wrong. I'd suggest you attend some animal training courses, leave the cat at home.

In the days when the tap washer was a brass fitting, the pulmbers here would give the shank of the valve a hit with a hammer to slightly change the shape of the stem from round( and loose in the valve) to slightly eliptical (and tight fit in the valve). Mainly though this was to stop squealing when on, not off. Could work the same though.

Tell the 40 yo to ****** off....apparently swearing like that is ok as I hear it everywhere and noothing is done about it.

Methinks you're going to crash and burn something fierce.

I've found that a quick call to the airline in question will resolve any queries and usually more accurately. After all, the last thing one wants when arriving for a flight is some questionable situation.

In my experience I would never send anything valuable by Thai post. Chance of it reaching it's destination are pretty slim. Another thing to watch out for is the import duty if sent from an outside country. Possibly the reason your gold watch went to where ever. Mind boggles on why one would do such a thing as gold dealers are in Thailand everywhere. Sent some Adidis T shirts for the kids, missus sadly left the price tags on from here in Aus, package was opened in destination town post office and had to pay 50% import duty on the retail tag prices. That was before delivery would be completed. Lucky we had a phone number on the package otherwise I'm guessing they would have gone to the "where ever" address as well.